By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare ORIGINS Idris Ali was born in Aswan in Upper Egypt in 1940 (he was of Nubian ancestry). He received his higher education from Al-Azhar University, in Cairo, Egypt. WORD WARRIOR: ACTIVISM THROUGH WRITING In 1969, when he was almost 30, he published his first short-story. He would go on to publish […]
BLACK ✊🏿🌍🇪🇬HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: IDRIS ALI NUBIAN-EGYPTIAN AUTHOR & ACTIVIST
Warrior Queen 👸🏿Yaa Asantawaa By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare ORIGINS Yaa Asantewaa was born in 1840 in Besease (a town in central Ghana), she was the daughter of a man named Kwaku Ampoma and a woman named Ata Po. Her brother was a man named Afrane Panin, he would become a chief of the people in […]
HISTORY OF AFRICAN WARRIOR QUEEN YAA ASANTEWAA OF THE ASANTE EMPIRE!🇬🇭
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Taharqa was a Pharaoh of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt and a Qore (King) of the Nile Kingdom to the south, Kush (Nubia). He was the son of Pharaoh Piye, the ancient Nubian king who conquered Egypt and created the 25th Dynasty of Egypt. Taharqa was also the cousin […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: PHARAOH TAHARQA-THE BIBLICAL “TIRHAKAH” KING OF ETHIOPIA (KUSH/NUBIA) ❤️💛💚
By:Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Shaka KaSenzangakhona, (better-known-as Shaka Zulu), was born in July of 1787 in Mthethwa Paramountcy (sometimes called the Mthethwa Empire). He was the son of Senzangakhona Kajama (who was a chief of the Zulu clan). Because he was viewed by some as an illegitimate son to Sebzangakhona Kajama (because his parents […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: WARRIOR KING SHAKA kASENZANGAKHONA (SHAKA ZULU) ♥️💛💚
BY:Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Pharaoh Narmer (believed by many experts of Egyptology to be the same pharaoh known as Menes). He was a Pharaoh in the early dynastic period of Egypt. He inherited the ancient African crown from protodynastic pharaoh Ka (also known as Sekhen). UNIFER He is believed by Egyptologists to of been […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: PHARAOH NARMER/MENES-FOUNDER OF YHE FIRST DYNASTY OF EGYPT 🇪🇬!❤️💛💚
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Cathay Williams was ironically born in Independence, Missouri, sometime around September 1844. She was the daughter of a Black freedman and an enslaved Black woman, therefore making her a slave. Williams worked as a house slave on the Johnson plantation, which was located on the edges of Jefferson City, […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: CATHAY WILLIAMS-THE BLACK AMERICAN JOAN OF ARC ❤💛💚
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Sunni Ali (sometimes spelled Sonni Ali), was born in Ali Kolon. Ali’s regal reign would last about 28 years (1464-1492). Ali was the 15th ruler of the medieval West African Sunni dynasty and the first ruler of the Songhai empire. THE CONQUEROR Under the command of emperor Sunni Ali, […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: SUNNI ALI-The FIRST EMPEROR OF THE SONGHAI EMPIRE ❤🖤💚
By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare EARLY LIFE Bilal Ibn Rabah was born in the holy city of Mecca (In Saudi Arabia), in the year of 580. According to the Islamic scholars he was the son of an Arab man and an Abyssinian (Ethiopian) woman.His father Rabah was a man in servitude to the Banu Jumah clan, […]
BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: BILAL IBN RABAH-THE SON OF AN AFRICAN PRINCESS, WHO BECAME A SLAVE, WHO BECAME A WARRIOR, WHO BECAME ONE OF THE MOST TRUSTED ALLIES OF THE ISLAMIC PROPHET MUHAMMAD🌍❤🖤💚!
Leon Kwasi "DaPoet" Kuntuo-Asare 